Bill Text: MI HB6209 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental protection; litter; littering of cigarette butts; explicitly prohibit. Amends sec. 8901 of 1994 PA 451 (MCL 324.8901).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-27 - Printed Bill Filed 05/27/2010 [HB6209 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB6209-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 6209

 

May 26, 2010, Introduced by Rep. Meltzer and referred to the Committee on Great Lakes and Environment.

 

     A bill to amend 1994 PA 451, entitled

 

"Natural resources and environmental protection act,"

 

by amending section 8901 (MCL 324.8901), as amended by 2004 PA 494.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8901. As used in this part:

 

     (a) "Litter" means rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage,

 

offal, paper, glass, cans, bottles, a can, a bottle, a cigarette

 

butt, trash, debris, or other another foreign substances substance,

 

or a vehicle that is considered abandoned under section 252a of the

 

Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL 257.252a.

 

     (b) "Public or private property or water" includes, but is not

 

limited to, any of the following:

 

     (i) The right-of-way of a road or highway, a body of water or

 

watercourse, or the shore or beach of a body of water or

 

watercourse, including the ice above the water.

 

     (ii) A park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or

 

recreation area.

 

     (iii) Residential or farm properties or timberlands.

 

     (c) "Vehicle" means a motor vehicle registered or required to

 

be registered under the Michigan vehicle code, 1949 PA 300, MCL

 

257.1 to 257.923.

 

     (d) "Vessel" means a vessel registered under part 801.